Where real property has been sold under a written contract executed by the vendor, and there has been such a performance of its terms by the vendee as would entitle him to a decree for a conveyance of the legal title, without condition, the vendor may not recover the property from the vendee.
D.C. Code § 16-1106
Performance of contract by vendee as precluding vendor from recovery
Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 565, Pub
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